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Alok da, sometimes I feel that nature is holding me captive consciously. Sometimes the touch of God is felt in the entire consciousness, sometimes without any reason doubt and the absence of devotion is felt. Earlier this stage seemed to be the most depressed but now I don’t feel any difference. All of them have coming and are going on their own. I detach myself from this activities. Still I feel pain due to this unconscious spontaneous activities. There is a feeling in my heart that I too should worship my mother like Ramkrishna, Ramprasad etc had done but now everything is going in reverse. Still, I feel something inside that stay for some time and let mother do her work. In this state, how can I reveal the devotion and dedication that I was expressing earlier? How to face this situation in right attitude😥?
This Yoga is different from the bhakti Yoga practiced by Ramprasad and Chaitanya. It is a relatively slower but more complete process. Because it involves
Alok da there is a man in Kolkata just to raise attention for women equality👩🦰👨🦰, goes on the streets and wear women clothing, now I found this very absurd and ridiculous, please explain can woman equality be done by wearing woman clothing, I think this is just a gimmick to attract attention.
If women equality could come by wearing clothes then the logical way would be to popularize men’s dress for women. This is exactly what was
Alok Da bad dream, I saw a dream that I was on the mountain and I fell down😪
It means that you are trying to excel yourself, to become strong and one-pointed. That you reached the mountain is a very good sign of
What is the connection between the Psychic Being 🌟and the Mind?
The mind is or should be an instrument of the psychic being. But more often than not it acts like a resistance to the emergence
Could you talk a bit about Buddha🌼. Mother used to speak on the Dhammapada so i got curious. Who is buddha, what did he come to do and what does Mother and Sri Aurobindo say about buddha?
ou will find talks on the Buddha on auromaa. Also we had taken out an issue of All India Magazine on the Path of Buddha
One of my grandmothers is growing old and frail she is almost bed ridden cannot get out of her room and is 92 years, I pray that she may be freed from this body that has become a burden and reason for pain, is this a selfish prayer? Can one pray for a loved ones death😪? What is the best approach in times like these ?
Many prayers are for selfish reasons so that itself does not make a prayer meaningless. But this prayer for someone’s departure at the person’s presumed
So much is spoken about unconditional love as an antidote to selfish love. What are the qualities of such a love and what are some practical ways of showing such a love💓?
Yes there is a lot of talk of these things nowadays such as unconditional love, non judgmental, no expectations, non duality, back to nature which
Is it true about the soul leaving the body through the hole on top of the head where we concentrate during meditation? Can us mortals see it🫤?
There are several doors in the subtle body through which the soul can leave, – eyes, ears, mouth, nostrils and anus. Leaving through the top
I was just reading Karl marx’s Short essay on the power of money, he wonders about this bewildering engimatic force which shapes our life and history and he quotes many of Sri Aurobindo’s favourite poets like Shakespeare and Goethe on how this mysterious force turns things upside down, Sri Aurobindo in Savitri covers everything about the cosmos even if it’s just a few lines but there’s isn’t anything about money if I am not wrong. Why is this so? Why is such a gigantic subject ignored🤔?
First of all there are a few presumptions there. Though Sri Aurobindo has appreciated Shakespeare and Goethe his appreciation of them is part of a
If a person is too casual in making a sexual relation with others. What is the spiritual consequence of this on him as well as on his partner and Are such people should be considered for long term relationships or Marriage🙄?
It is the sign of a weak and restless vital. Naturally such people are inherently incapable of forming deep and lasting bonds as is needed
I had a question on a particular phrase in Savitri. “The universe is an endless masquerade: For nothing here is utterly what it seems; It is a dream-fact vision of a truth Which but for the dream would not be wholly true, A phenomenon stands out significant Against dim backgrounds of eternity; “What exactly is a “dream-fact vision of a truth”? Either we have dreams, or we have facts, two different order of realities🤔.
To think of the language of Savitri, it feels like Sri Aurobindo has stretched the bounds of the finite to the utmost, by capturing the
Goddess Gayatri is my Ishta Devata. I chant Gayatri mantra regularly for a bright future for my family. Till now I believed that Mother Gayatri bestows wisdom, prosperity and strength on her sadhaka so that he can live a happy meaningful life. I used to meditate🧘♂️ like this during Gayatri Japa which was as advised by my parents & guru. …
You can deal with this dilemma in two different ways. First is that though each god or goddess has a certain limited function, the overriding
“Follow your passion” some people say. I am stuck a little. I have a broad direction in which I want my life to develop — in service of the nation. At the same time, the scope of different careers is so wide that I don’t know what is best for me! A part of me wants to study something very practical which will enable me to realise this vision even if I don’t like the subject in and of itself (for example, studying finance). Another part of me wants me to do something that I would intrinsically enjoy studying (for example, music or history). However, I doubt whether choosing this path will enable me to develop the skills or knowledge that will be of much use when it comes to making impactful change in society. Can you suggest how I can develop clarity on this? I definitely agree with people who say that you can only succeed in and be happy doing something that you feel passionate about. But isn’t this idea slightly overrated? Shouldn’t one be able to enjoy and succeed in whatever one does, no matter what it is? Even if it’s not something one enjoyed doing as a child or doesn’t have a natural predisposition towards😠?
We should first differentiate between what we are naturally drawn towards by our innate temperament and predilection. It is more of an inborn inclination whose
Few days back there was an incident in Baroda when a youth has consumed substances and crashed his car, when he came out of the car he did not even realise what had happened, videos have come of completely intoxicated and shouting, in all this a young person died, now i am asking from other side, i have read somewhere, Ma says that there are no accidents so then what about the person who died with no fault of his? how can one console his family😰?
The Mother says that the cause of accidents is unconsciousness. We call it accident and mean by the word that it is something that is
In the lines –‘Almost that day the epiphany was disclosed Of which our thoughts and hopes are signal flares;’, What exactly is this epiphany🙂?
The revelation of the New Manifestation that is hinted in our thoughts and hopes of a beautiful diviner life….
Da as we know this is the very critical and crucial time for all human beings on earth. The pandemic has already grasped all over the World. We can consider it as the instructions of the Divine action to separate the falsehood from truth. This alarming situation on the earth instructs everyone to cling to the truth. It is the action of supramental force. But Dada is it the only way to give a lesson to the world. The Mother once eradicated the Devil behind Spanish flu. But again this corona pandemic arrived. As we know from Ramayana and Mahabharata and many other stories the victory of the good will happens always and the Asuras are killed. But still then they are alive. The bad will has been now multiplied. What is the permanent solution of this crisis? What should we do now😪? Please da kindly reply it .
The Asuras cannot be killed for good since they hide themselves in the human heart and we help them do so. Therefore if the Divine
Why do we have exams📝?
Because we as human beings have this unfortunate need to standardise everything with the help of numbers. We wrongly believe that we can judge the
While I was watching your talk on the Worship of Beauty, a question came to my mind. Why is it that our bodies are unable to reflect our inner reality? There are people who are not physically very beautiful but are very beautiful on the inside. Likewise, there are attractive people who are mean and cruel. This is probably the Divine’s Play but again, it does not answer anything. So why is beauty here so out of place? In the future will the outer reality reflect the inner reality of a person🤔?
Very pertinent observation. The reason of course is a lack of translation or correspondence between inner Reality and outer truth in general. The material world